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Asked: 2026-05-29T18:56:01+00:00

This is a relatively open ended question so I wouldn’t just mind being pointed

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This is a relatively open ended question so I wouldn’t just mind being pointed in the right direction.

I have a product that uses the Eclipse workbench to allow users to program in a custom language. For this product, I will also have some minor UI and internal changes for a lighter version to be exported. For example, a full version of the product contains some extra views and menus, and behaves slightly differently (like when creating a new file) where as the ligher version does not contain a lot of view and has a couple of different more simplified ones.

I do not want to make a copy of my workspace and then have 2 separate workspaces for a full version and a lighter version as that will be difficult to maintain in the long run especially when there are changes in code relevant to both. I want to be able to export both, full and light versions of a product from a common workspace.

How can I go about this? Or where can I start looking?

The product is a collection of features and uses the Eclipse workbench as its base application.

I would like to clarify that I am asking how I could hide a view for the full or light version, as an example. I know in C#, we have options like #if. I have seen a lot of questions which refer to having 2 different versions of the same code, but nothing about how they could have 2 different versions of the same code.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You want the Eclipse RCP book it really fully explains how to do this. And to do it you need a solid understanding of the concepts of Eclipse plugin, feature, product, fragment and a few other things.

    Essentially you can segment your application in to multiple plugins (have a base plugin for example, and then another that provides additional functionality). Then you organize those plugins into features that are the collection of the functionality to be installed. The notion of a “product” in Eclipse has to do with the branding, so you would probably have two products, a lite and a full one. The products could have a branding plugin (where the product is actually declared).

    This should get you started.

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